Monthly Archives: November 2015

THE BEAT THAT CHANGED HIP-HOP

The Beat that Changed Hip-Hop

By Abra Clawson and Lindsay Chaplin

The Roland TR-808’s interface is easy to use, as it has color-coded dials and buttons.

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The genres of Hip-Hop, House, Techno, and R&B were changed forever because of the machine.

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Arthur Baker, Producer of Planet Rock

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Matt Black, from the British duo Coldcut

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Additionally, the full videos we pulled interviews from can be found at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCJReSDmqkg

and

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/04/27/the-history-of-the-roland-tr-808/

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The Grain of Hindi Film Songs

 

Bibliography:

Jeanne Cohen, S. (Ed.). (1998). Film Musicals. In The International Encyclopedia of Dance. Oxford University Press.

Jones, J. (2015). Bollywood sounds: The cosmopolitan mediations of Hindi film song (pp. 5-9). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

[Bansuriflute]. (2006, November 21). Raga Shivranjani on Bansuri (Indian Bamboo Flute). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QuDEx3_Ygo

[AtlasEnsemble1]. (2013, November 4). Dhruba Ghosh demonstrates the sarangi. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_yMf_Ra9XM

[The Biryani Boys]. (2008, April 1). Amazing Sitar Player. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTPxqUtlLdo

[Maxwell Wolkin]. (2010, February 15). “Mehbooba Mehbooba” (Sholay). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PCxTGZynpo

[AtoZ BollyWood Movie Songs]. (2010, February 2). Tujhe Dekha To Hai Jaana Sanam – Dil Wale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCZYOYrhkeA&list=PLkQGwWhksS3CPTL-HT2R2uOjobCnx_MAr

Findrishab85. (2013). Raghunath Prasanna Tripura Bansuri. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raghunath_Prasanna_Tripura_Bansuri.jpg

J.-L. Charnoz. (2013). Saranghi ou Sarangi. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saranghi_ou_Sarangi_(Luth),_%22Rituels_et_Musiques_du_Monde%22,_CPFI,_Festival_Les_Orientales_(Saint-Florent-Le-Vieil).jpg

Saifudheen. (2010). Sitarist Ibrahim – Sitar. Retrieved from https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitar#/media/File:Sitarist_Ibrahim.jpg

Sarangi:

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Bansuri:

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Sitar:

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Nature and healing represented through Khoomei

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Trower, Shelley. “Hearing Vibrations.” In Senses of Vibration A History of the Pleasure and Pain of Sound. New York, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.

Drake, Michael. “Shamanic Drumming.” By Michael Drake / Shaman Portal. Accessed November 12, 2015. http://www.shamanportal.org/article_details.php?id=703.

Deusen, Kira. “The Power of Sound.” In Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.

Levin, Theodore Craig, and Valentina Kei. Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and beyond. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Levin, Theodore C., and Michael E. Edgerton. “The Throat Singers of Tuva.” Scientific American Sept. 1999: 80-87. Web.

 

Matrenitsky, Dr. Vladislav. “Uh-Hun. The Sound of the Sun.” Un-Hun. 2010. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.

 Liesowska, Anna. “Shamans Rouse the Ancient Siberian Spirits.” The Siberian Times. 10 Sept.      2014. Web. 13 Nov. 2015. 

 

“Shamanism in Tuva.” Khoomei.Narod. 2010. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.

Sounds:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBrq4aDP3D0)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJZtbTWplU)

“Shamanic Drumming for Trance Journey Work, Theta Brain Rhythm Training.” YouTube. YouTube, Oct.-Nov. 2012. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.
“Shaman Chants and Throat Singing: Shaman/Healer Mauricio with Throat Singer Matthew Kocel.” YouTube. YouTube, 20 July 2011. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.

 

The Siku and Urbanization

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Bibliography:

  1. Rios, Fernando . “Bolero Trios, Mestizo Panpipe Ensembles, and Bolivia’s 1952 Revolution: Urban La Paz Musicians and the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement.” University of Illinois Press 54, no. 2(2010): 282–316.
  2. Turino, Thomas. Moving Away From Silence. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Pictures:

  1. http://landofwinds.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/andean-aerophones-06-tropas-of-sikus.html
  2. https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR9KdbDlYYBJUtAwHnTTzs6Kc6v6mSRQe-13msfg9Mu3Bk5_Cqd

Sounds:

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJRUx1DYmI
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO67RZMtd3M
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNkOOuVYYdI

 

Sonic Dominance: The Sound of God

https://youtu.be/R6iVI2UolUU

By Asher Bean and Emily Downing

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Bibliography

 

Deep, Aman. Alaap by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in Movie The Last Temptation of

    Christ. YouTube. YouTube, 8 June 2013. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.

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Ganapathy, Subbu. Vedic Chanting from South India Part 1. YouTube.com. YouTube,

    11 Jan. 2009. Web. 13 Nov. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/

    watch?v=0tZv9utp-oc>.

 

Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali. Interview by Andy Carvin. 1993.

 

Mast, Raho. Amir Khusro Sufi Kalam. YouTube. YouTube, 19 Mar. 2011. Web. 10 Nov.

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O’Neil, Susi. “Qawwali: Music of the Sufis.” Pilot Guides. N.p., n.d. Web. 10

    Nov. 2015. <http://www.pilotguides.com/articles/

    qawwali-music-of-the-sufis/>.

 

Rashid, Hussein. “Qawwali and the Art of Devotional Singing.” Worldwide

    Locations. Asia Society, 2007. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.

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Web, Desi. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in Central Park New York Full Concert.

    YouTube.com. YouTube, 12 Mar. 2012. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.

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Wijeratne, Dinuk. “Velvet Fire.” WIJERATNEWORKS (2013): n. pag. Print.

 

Pictures:

http://blog.uvm.edu/vlbrenna-sound2015/2015/10/20/sonic-dominance-and-the-reggae-sound-system-session/

http://www.neontommy.com/news/2014/11/why-sufi-best-genre-music

http://www.shiamultimedia.com/qawwali2.html

http://kunzum.com/2010/11/17/delhi-enjoy-the-weekly-qawwalis-at-nizamuddin-dargah/

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-11-03/pakistani-musician-brought-sufi-music-mainstream

http://www2.ljworld.com/photos/2006/may/13/97639/

https://dontforgetthesongs365.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/eddie-vedder-featuring-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan-the-face-of-love/

https://cultureatkamelia.wordpress.com/tag/hindu-wake-singing/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/whitehindu/2013/11/mantra-v-s-prayer-whats-the-difference/

http://www.carmel.lib.in.us/blog/blog.cfm?id=418

Japanoise: Music, Noise, or False Dichotomy?

 

Citations:

“Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine (Full Album Bonus Tracks) [1978].” YouTube. Accessed November 13, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL3NqfFTec8.

 

“Masonna Festival Beyond Innocence, Bridge, Osaka 2002 Japanoise.” YouTube. Accessed November 13, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylDuOmEoZx0.

 

Novak, David. “Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation.” Japanoise. Accessed November 13, 2015. http://www.japanoise.com/images/book.jpg.

 

“Noise Music Japanoise Composition 34-1.” YouTube. Accessed November 13, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhNvAduJe9k.

 

Nagel, Rob, and “Kraftwerk.” Contemporary Musicians. 2006. “Kraftwerk.” Encyclopedia.com. 1993. Accessed November 13, 2015. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Kraftwerk.aspx.

 

“70’s Japanese Pop Style.” Amazon AWS. Accessed November 13, 2015. https://s3.amazonaws.com/rebelsmarket_production/blog/post_pictures/data/content/3069.jpg.

 

“Hijokaidan Vomit.” Jagged Visions Zine. Accessed November 13, 2015. https://jaggedvisionszine.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/hijokaidanvomit.jpg.

 

“Hijokaidan – Untitled.” YouTube. Accessed November 13, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKBsN67eDSA.

 

The End of Being. Accessed November 13, 2015. http://theendofbeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CM-Capture-2.jpg.

 

“HANATARASH.” YouTube. Accessed November 13, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7p_C9OlN40.

 

“Figure 7.” Art and Education. Accessed November 13, 2015. http://www.artandeducation.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/fig-7.jpg.

 

Henriques, Julian. “The Auditory Culture Reader.” Edited by Michael Bull and Les Back. Sonic Dominance and the Reggae Sound System Session.
Barthes, Roland. “Music Image Text.” The Grain of the Voice.

Theremin: The Anonymous Instrument

Theremin Presentaton

Bibliography:

Seabrook, John. “Vibrations.” The New Yorker 9 May 2011: 23. Literature Resource Center. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.

Orton, Richard, and Hugh Davies. “Theremin [Termenvoks].” Oxford Music Online. 2007. Accessed November 9, 2015. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com:80/subscriber/article/grove/music/27813.

Townsend, Peter. “The Role of Physics in Shaping Music.” Academic Search Premier. 1975. Accessed November 4, 2015.